<p> <br /><b>HISTORY CHANNEL: THE ROCKEFELLERS PART 4 OF 9</b> <br /><br /><b>-Generational Philanthropy-</b> <br /><br />The members of the <b>Rockefeller family</b> are noted for their philanthropy; a Rockefeller Archive Center study in 2004 documents an incomplete list of 72 major institutions that the family has created and/or endowed up to the present day. Historically, the major focus of their benefactions have been in the educational, health and conservation areas. However, through its principal philanthropic organisation, the Rockefeller Foundation (established in 1913), and more recently the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1940) and the Rockefeller Family Fund (1967), this focus extends outwards to encompass every major facet of American society. <br /><br />Family leaders in both philanthropy and business have included John D. Sr., John D. Jr. ("Junior"), John D. 3rd, Laurance Rockefeller and David Rockefeller, who is the family's current patriarch. Several family members have held high public office, including Vice President of the United States (Nelson Rockefeller), United States Senator (Jay Rockefeller), state Governor (Nelson, Jay, and Winthrop Rockefeller), and Lieutenant Governor (Winthrop Paul Rockefeller). Another noted family member was Michael Rockefeller, son of Nelson, an anthropologist who came to media attention after he was presumed killed in New Guinea in 1961. <br /><br />The corporate, financial and personal affairs of the family - numbering around 150 blood relatives of John D. Rockefeller - are run from the family office, Room 5600, known officially as "Rockefeller Family and Associates". It comprises three floors of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center; all private family legal matters are handled by the family-associated New York law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Room 5600 is also the base of the current family historian, Peter J. Johnson, who assisted with David Rockefeller's Memoirs, published in 2002. <br /></p><p></p>
